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Candy kisses me.
“Be careful.”
“See you soon.”
AT BURGESS’S PLACE in Beverly Hills, I throw some Hellion hoodoo and all the cars on one of the streets explode into flames. The concussion sets off the alarms in all the cars across the street. The security Burgess hired to walk the grounds rush the front of the place. That lets me get around the back. I whisper some Hellion hoodoo to get me through the wards and open the door with the black blade. After looking out the windows for security, I head upstairs.
At least one thing goes right for me today. When I get upstairs to where Geoff is looking out the window, Elsabeth isn’t there.
Burgess freezes when he sees me in the room. I point the Colt at him.
“Where’s the missus?”
“Gone. I sent her away after the other night. I had a feeling it was you.”
“But you weren’t sure? Who else did you think it might be?”
“That’s none of your business.”
I take a couple of steps toward hm. He’s too scared or too dumb to move.
“Is everything okay in Wormwood land? No one is looking for a way out, are they? Or maybe a change in management?”
“You’re way out of your depth here,” he says.
“I usually am. Sit down.”
He does.
“What’s black milk?”
“Nothing that concerns you.”
“It got into a friend of mine, so it does.”
“Undiluted? My condolences.”
I put the Colt away. I was never going to use it. Too noisy. I take out the na’at, my favorite weapon back when I fought in the arena Downtown. Burgess sits back, not sure what to make of it. I extend the na’at into a whip shape. Snap it a couple of times.
“What’s black milk?”
Burgess gets a funny look on his face.
“Are you going to kill me? Torture me?”
“The second thing, then the first.”
“My security team will be checking on me soon.”
“They’re not going to like what they find.”
He says, “You know that every second you’re here, we’re making a profit, right? Just you breaking in here triggers all sorts of wonderfully complex financial and celestial mechanisms.”
“Is it all just money with you people?”
“Of course not. It’s power. It’s eternity. It’s fun. In this world and the next.”
I snap the na’at at his head. He twitches back from it.
